This seems to be on Floatplane (?), but has been posted publicly on Discord several times so I’m ok forwarding it here too. From the discussion, they plan to release this on youtube shortly. edit: Now updated with the youtube link. It’s cool that you can change the link after submission on Lemmy!
Steve directly addresses your question in both his videos at some point. He states that he did this to avoid the company (he is not making this about Linus, he is directing this at the conglomerate that is LMG) attempting to muddy the timeline and impact the journalistic integrity of the piece. Low and behold, even without reaching out for comment, Linus did in fact attempt to muddy the timeline and undermine the legitimacy of the piece. So exactly what Steve feared happening, is exactly what LMG did, sadly